While politicians ignore calls to raise Newstart, alarming levels of financial stress among private renters, particularly in low-rent outer suburbs, show why current welfare payments are too low.
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Not all landlords see their properties purely as investments. As welfare reforms take hold, some are starting to take greater responsibility for the well-being of their tenants.
Increasing numbers of older Australians don’t own their homes. Whether they are private renters or live in social housing can make a big difference to their risk of loneliness and anxiety.
Landlords could have a big impact on public health, if they help their tenants to feel at home.
Renting a house shouldn’t mean it’s not home. Until we change our meaning of home by separating it from ownership, we will never be able to “fix” Australia’s housing crisis.
Proposed changes to NSW rental tenancy law are an improvement, but do not end the excessive rent increases and “no grounds” evictions that put renters – and older women in particular – at risk.
Residential tenancy reforms are before the NSW parliament, but a key reform is missing. In this open letter, housing academics call for an end to landlords’ power to terminate leases with ‘no grounds’.
Until now most people have eventually owned a home. But two trends – falling ownership and a growing aged population – will put the budgets of retirees and government under real pressure.
Administrative errors and negative stereotypes lead landlords to discriminate against people on housing benefit.
Increasingly insecure pathways to home ownership are not just a problem for property markets. The fallout is likely to hit retirement incomes, the welfare base, gender equity and the broader economy.
There is a risk that affordable housing policy may be colonised by for-profit interests if Australia imports the wrong rental housing ideas from overseas.
Top contributors
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Professor of Policy and Society, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Research Associate, HHAUS research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Research Associate. CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Hallam University
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Postdoctoral fellow - Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Fellow, Sociology
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Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Housing, University of Stirling
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology